Definition of Saccharose

1. Noun. A complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent.

Exact synonyms: Sucrose
Generic synonyms: Disaccharide, Plant Product
Specialized synonyms: Brain Sugar, Galactose

Definition of Saccharose

1. n. Cane sugar; sucrose; also, in general, any one of the group of which saccharose, or sucrose proper, is the type. See Sucrose.

Definition of Saccharose

1. Noun. (carbohydrates) sucrose ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Saccharose

1. Cane sugar; sucrose; also, in general, any one of the group of which saccharose, or sucrose proper, is the type. See Sucrose. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saccharose

saccharomycete
saccharomycetes
saccharomycopsis
saccharomycosis
saccharonate
saccharone
saccharonic
saccharonic acid
saccharopine
saccharopine dehydrogenase
saccharopine dehydrogenases
saccharopine oxidase
saccharopinuria
saccharopolyspora
saccharorrhoea
saccharose (current term)
saccharosuria
saccharous
saccharum
saccharum canadense
saccharum lactis
saccholactate
saccholactates
saccholactic
sacchulmate
sacchulmic
sacchulmin
sacciferous
sacciform
sacciform recess

Literary usage of Saccharose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1914)
"The forms which ferment glycerin and not saccharose are scattered among many sub-groups ... In my own series, saccharose divides the group into two parts of ..."

2. An Intermediate Textbook of Physiological Chemistry with Experiments by Chauncey John Vallette Pettibone (1917)
"Inversion of saccharose.—By boiling with dilute acids saccharose may be broken ... After ascertaining that the saccharose solution will not reduce Feh- ling ..."

3. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"NB The number of milligrams of copper reduced by a given amount of reducing sugar differs when saccharose is present and when it is absent. ..."

4. The Chemical Synthesis of Vital Products and the Interrelations Between by Raphael Meldola (1904)
"14, 139 : S. ludwigii does not seem to be amenable to this treatment : for adaptation of yeasts to saccharose see also Dubourg, loc. cit. ..."

5. Enzymes and Their Applications by Jean Effront, Samuel Cate Prescott (1902)
"—When we examined the course of the transformation of saccharose by sucrase, we noted that the quantity of invert- sugar formed during a given time ..."

6. Enzymes and Their Applications by Jean Effront, Samuel Cate Prescott (1902)
"Factors Retarding Inversion and their Explanation. —When we examined the course of the transformation of saccharose by sucrase, ..."

7. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Karl Schorlemmer (1884)
"... COMPOUNDS OF saccharose. 834 Cane-sugar contains eight hydroxyls the hydrogen of which can be replaced by acid radicals. ..."

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